I stumbled across this really interesting post by Dr Richard Beck called The Bait and Switch of Contemporary Christianity that I wanted to share.  Before following the link, I should preface it by telling you that Dr Beck is Associate Professor of Psychology at a Christian University. The reason I wanted to draw your attention [...]

Of all the arguments for an against atheism, the most ill-informed is surely It takes just as much faith to be an atheist as a theist. This, of course, is patently ridiculous.  Being an atheist requires no faith, not even a little bit.  I have to respond to this argument point so regularly I thought [...]

The concept of monotheism has always bothered me.  How can someone believe in only one God?  Even if they are deluded to the point that they believe they can communicate with a higher being, how do they know it’s the same being every time. Surely any being that was capable of such communication, or a [...]

Amongst some in religious communities there is a pride in ignorance.  Atheists are frowned upon for being “intellectuals” and out of touch with the normal, working class people.  This pride in ignorance is not the cultivated ignorance that we see as a result of organised religion, but rather a misplaced sense of conflict and segregation. [...]

As an atheist I reject all religions and supernatural claims. It’s fairly simple really, but many religious people seem to take this as a personal attack on the beliefs. It’s not. A Christian’s beliefs are as ridiculous and unfounded as a Muslim’s or a Hindu’s and should be treated with an equal amount of derision. [...]

As the gaps in which to hide a God close, the religious have to reach to new areas with which to attribute their god with action. The physical world is nicely explained by science, rendering a God as either inept or lazy (or more likely, non-existent), so it tends to be more intangible areas that [...]